South Bay Art
Association is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Juried Exhibit!
This year, it is an
Open show, and artists can register online through our website!
Deadline to enter is Oct 5th
2014
The Show Chairman
is Ted Stamatelos, who will be assisted by LuAnn Thompson and Chris
Taylor.
We look forward to a wonderful
variety of quality work for this show, and we are pleased
to announce our Juror is
Beth E. Levinthal, of the Hofstra University Museum.
The show will run
from Thursday October 9th thru the 19th, with a reception on Friday,
October 10th from 7 -9 pm.
Phoenix Gallery is
located at 139 South Country Road in the Village of Bellport .
The Gallery is open
Thurs- Sat 11-5 and Sundays 12 -4.
631-776-0811
About Our Juror
(From the Hofstra website):
Beth E. Levinthal is director of the Hofstra University
Museum. Prior to assuming her position at Hofstra in 2006, she served as
executive director of the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, Long Island,
New York, from 2001 to 2006.
From 1987 to 1994, Ms. Levinthal was an art educator,
editor of an arts publication, and public programs coordinator at the Art
League of Long Island. In 1994 she joined the staff of the Heckscher Museum of
Art, subsequently being named director of education and public programs in
1996. During her tenure, she introduced numerous interdisciplinary and
multicultural programs for children, families and adults, greatly increasing
annual program attendance and outreach to the Long Island community. Highlights
of her many contributions to the Heckscher Museum include “Discovering Art
Together” programs for families; a junior docent program for fifth graders; a
high school docent program; “Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the
Heckscher,” an annual exhibition opportunity for high school art students; and
“Heckscher Hits the Road,” a program for adults in senior living facilities,
hospitals and nursing homes.
Among other affiliations, she is a founding member and
secretary of the board of directors of the Long Island Arts Alliance (LIAA),
and a peer reviewer for the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
She served as a member of the board of directors for the Museum Association of
New York (MANY) from 2002 to 2005.
Among Ms. Levinthal’s awards and honors, she was the 1996
Malcolm Arth Fellow of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums, and in 2005,
she was honored by Hofstra University with a George M. Estabrook Distinguished
Alumni Award. In 2006 she was named a Woman of Distinction by Distinction
magazine.